Results 1,521-1,540 of 11,246 for speaker:Colm Burke
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: To take radiation therapy as an example, the colleges tell us they need funding to employ additional people.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: It is very straightforward. Trinity College has said it is prepared to increase its number of places from 30 to 50 overnight if it gets the funding for additional staff. Likewise, UCC is prepared to double the number of places overnight, from 12 to 24. Even if we do this, it will still take four years to have Trinity graduates and two years to have UCC postgraduates. At the same time the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: Approximately 50% of dental places are going to students coming from abroad. Can we have something in place by September next year to deal with a lot of these issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: Can we get a report a some stage during the year on what progress is made on this issue? It is a big challenge. In nursing, medicine and dentistry, we have a number of people coming in from abroad to provide a great service because we do not have the people here who are qualified. I would like a report at some stage during the year on this issue. I want to touch on another issue, which is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: I am specifically talking about co-ordination between third level institutions here and in Northern Ireland. For instance, more than 40 years ago, the Washington Ireland Program was set up, whereby young people from both communities could work in Washington for a period of six or 12 months. Nothing like that appears to have been developed between our universities nor have any incentives...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: What I find strange is that I did this in respect of Shanghai 20 years and it worked. Shanghai is a long way away.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: In Cork city, we now have more than 8,000 purpose-built student units. They have all come onstream over the past ten years. Between the last six months, and in the coming 12 months at least 1,500 more spaces will come onstream. The problem is that the ownership and control of a lot of the student accommodation is with a small number of companies. The rent, therefore, that students are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: Does Dr. O'Reardon accept that if I set up a business in the morning and spend €100,000 setting it up, I can write that off against tax? If I am investing in a future career I am not entitled to do that. I am not asking that the Department pay the cost of college fees. I am saying there is an incentive there to deal with it. A number of people involved in that area presented a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: A period of time after they have qualified. In a lot of cases, as with someone doing medicine or dentistry, they are doing placements during the summer months so they are not really earning. They are not given the opportunity to earn. They are paying fees and accommodation. They do not have any income. When they finish and have spent all of this money, there is no benefit there for them....
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: I accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: The other question was on control of rents where there is now a small group controlling between 70% and 80% of the student accommodation. As a result they can dictate high prices for student accommodation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: If I were to rent some place in Cork now, I will be charged somewhere around €250 per bed per week. I am saying that is extremely high. It is the same in Dublin. These units are purpose-built student accommodation. I do not think any restriction is being imposed on rent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: If you are a new student on 1 September, the rent can be dictated to you because you are starting off as a tenant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: My understanding is that if you are a new tenant, they can increase the price to what they want, rather than it being controlled, because you are a new tenant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: Students have come to me about this. Could I have clarification?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Lemass.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2023)
Colm Burke: Yes, absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2023)
Colm Burke: I agree with the proposal. As I said, I have a concern in respect of one aspect of the FAI which relates to it having possession of land which has being lying vacant for over ten years. Other organisations are not being allowed to use it even though it is urgently required in the growing urban area of Glanmire in Cork. All of these issues, especially those raised by Deputy O'Connor, are of...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (22 Nov 2023)
Colm Burke: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance to give due consideration to establishing an expert group to advise the Government on the implementation of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report, recommending Government to develop fiscal measures to encourage a reduction in the consumption of ultra processed foods, to reduce the harms of such foods and to promote healthier eating; and if he will...